Sr. Backend Engineer

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, secure, efficient, scalable, and reusable code that always protects customer privacy and confidentiality.
• Fully collaborate on back-end technical strategy and direction.
• Have a strong focus on quality, reliability, robust operations, and performance.
• Develop and support third-party integrations, frontend capabilities, and internal partner interfaces.
• Contribute across the full stack – backend, API layer, and frontend, collaborating positively and effectively across teams.
• Carry out code reviews, testing, and optimization to ensure the performance, security, and completeness of our solutions.
• Act in a lead role, taking the initiative to identify gaps, propose solutions, and embrace ownership of both personal work and team solutions.
• Partner with architects and Scrum team members to drive technical decisions in projects and provide input on our architecture, databases, and APIs.
• Extend existing system functionality based on user requirements; analyze code to identify areas for modification and maintain and support existing products.
• Consult with product managers and business analysts to define, scope, and plan new features.
• Partner with teammates to ensure solutions are delivered on time and fully meet requirements.
• Be a key participant in our agile development framework.
• Produce complete and coherent documentation.
• Stay current in tools and technologies, testing, evaluating, and recommending technologies to improve our overall solutions.
• Deliver general engineering and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of directly relevant experience, including Epic/Story writing and elaboration, technical design, coding, testing (unit, integration, and system testing with an emphasis on creating tests for automated execution), deployment, and the creation of documentation.
• Demonstrated empathy for consumers and internal customers.
• Proficiency in C#, ASP/ASP.Net, .NET Core, RESTful API, JSON, jQuery, Python, SQL Server, No-SQL databases, and bonus points for React, Drupal/PHP, CMS (content management systems) and web services integrations.
• Experience delivering Service Oriented Architectural solutions on either AWS or Azure.
• Relevant experience in one or more of these technologies is desired: Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions, Transactional queues, Data Lake.
• Experience with CI/CD Pipeline systems like Azure DevOps Pipeline, Terraform, TeamCity, Jenkins, Concourse, Hudson, and Bamboo.
• Enthusiasm and expertise with rapid prototyping.
• Expertise in ensuring quality with code development, including unit and integration testing as part of code complete.
• Ability to adopt and contribute as needed to development standards. All work must be maintainable by the engineers who follow.
• An eye for customer experience, application and data security, and code optimization.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.